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of Professors C. A. Kofoid and H. B. Torrey in so intimate a 
way that surely without them the institution could not have been 
exactly what it is; indeed could not have been at all without 
services quite like theirs. To Professor Kofoid’s extensive 
knowledge of laboratory plans, construction, and equipment, to 
his skill in working out details for such purposes, and to his 
ability in devising mechanical appliances, are largely due the 
laboratory building and some of the most important apparatus 
Professor Torrey also took an import- 
used on the ‘‘ Agassiz.’ 
ant part in planning the laboratory building and the ‘‘ Agassiz”’; 
while his special efforts have largely produced the library, not 
only as it now is but as it will be in its fuller development. 
During the spring and summer of 1906 while the Scientific 
Director was absent from the United States, the conduct of 
affairs devolved upon Professor Kofoid as Assistant Director, 
and the period proved to be one of special importance for the 
station in that, largely through his initiative, three biologists, 
Professors E. L. Mark of Harvard University, E. B. Wilson of 
Columbia University, and H. S. Jennings of Johns Hopkins 
University, were invited to La Jolla at the expense of Mr. E. W. 
Scripps, primarily as advisors on certain matters of policy, par- 
ticularly on the question then being considered, of locating on 
the land afterward acquired for the station’s permanent site. 
Moving on to still broader, more general aspects of the insti- 
tution, it is not too much to say that the transference of the 
station from its precarious existence at San Pedro to its surer 
tenure of life at San Diego was a service due more to Dr. Fred 
Baker than to any other person. And from that day to this 
his constant thought and care and activity have contributed 
to making the institution what it is, to an extent that can be 
only partially specified. As concerns the routine business affairs 
since the formation of the Marine Biological Association of San 
Diego in 1904, what has been said of Dr. Baker’s service is 
almost equally true of that of the other officials of the Board 
of Directors, Mr. Julius Wangenheim as treasurer and chairman 
of the building committee, Mr. H. L. Titus as vice-president and 
legal adviser, and Mr. F. W. Kelsey as secretary in the earlier 
days, and later Mr. W. C. Crandall in the same office. Nor 
